Posted on 11/23/2004 3:13:24 PM PST by yankeedame
Bet SOMEONE was wishing he'd been playing the lottery instead of with his camera that day.....
Not anymore it's not. Since the event has now happened the chances are 1 out of 1.
LOL!
Oh yea, I see it now.
Heavens to Mergatroid. We're lucky to still be alive.
I don't see a meteorite but I think I see The Virgin Mary's face in the clouds.
Y'know, it really pees me off when you guys use all that inside technical jargon...
Nice work, Mental...
Silly boy...there's no cheese sandwich in the clouds....
A meteorite with the mass of a grain of sand traveling that fast after passing 100 miles or more through the atmosphere (note it was not traveling perpendicular to the ground)? I doubt it.
She had one dealing with "your pocket" which is innappropriate for a family oriented website. Although, it was kinda clever.
I felt that one.
It's a line from an old song by Perry Como.
Oddly enough it's titled "Catch a Falling Star".
CATCH A FALLING STAR
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night
Just in case you feel you want to hold her
You'll have a pocketful of starlight
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night
Just in case you feel you want to hold her
You'll have a pocketful of starlight
(Pocketful of starlight, hm,hm,hm,hm,hm,hm)
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
(Save it for a rainy, save it for a rainy, rainy, rainy, day)
For when your troubles start multiplyin' and they just might
It's easy to forget them without tryin'
With just a pocketful of starlight
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
(Save it for a rainy day)
Save it for a rainy day
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Oh man, that's gonna leave a mark...
Yes. But the bigger question is "Is that a TROLLing boat just to the right?" If so, the viking kitty's ZOT missed!
I can't see it, what am I missing?
I don't believe the meteor impact interpretation.
The impact site is very improbable.
"I had a firecracker laying on the ground and as I photographed it a a meteor must have struck it. See the flash of light?"
I suspect that the image was taken near dusk and the photocell controlled gas vapor street light was just starting up but wound up exploding instead and created the bright flash. The tube trail is likely a camera artifact caused by the flash.
There is also a very old historical account that could also be explained by a meteor hitting the Moon. This was recorded by Gervase of Canterbury who, in 1178, along with five other monks, saw a very bright flash on the Moon:
"There was a bright New Moon, and as usual in that phase its horns were tilted towards the east. Suddenly, the upper horn split in two. From the midpoint of the division, a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out fire, hot coals and sparks."
Some astronomers believe that the crater Bruno, one of the youngest on the lunar surface, may have been formed in this event.
LISTER: (Holding up a banana) Okay, let's try again. What is it?
KRYTEN: It's a banana.
LISTER: No, it isn't. Try again. What is it?
KRYTEN: It's a banana?
LISTER: (Exasperated) No, it isn't! What is it?
KRYTEN: It's an urrrr.... It's an urrrr....
LISTER: It's an orange! Go on, say it. It's an orange! This! Is! An
orange!
KRYTEN: It's an orrrr... It's an orrrr... It's a banana! It's no good,
sir, I just can't do it!
LISTER: You CAN do it, I'm gonna teach you how! (Holding up an apple)
Okay, what's this?
KRYTEN: It's an ap--
LISTER: No, no, no, what is it?
KRYTEN: Oh, it's no good sir, I just can't lie! I'm programmed always to
tell the truth.
LISTER: Kryten, it's easy! (Holding up the apple) Look: an orange.
(Holding up the orange) A melon. (Holding up the banana) A female
aardvark!
KRYTEN: Oh! Oh, that is just so superb, sir! How DO you do that?
Especially calling a banana an aardvark? An aardvark isn't even a
fruit! It's total genius!
LISTER: (Beat) Let's start again.
KRYTEN: Oh, sir, my head is spinning. We've been doing this all morning!
LISTER: Kryten, I'm gonna teach you how to lie and cheat if it's the last
thing I do. I want you to be unpleasant, cruel, and sarcastic; it's
the only way to break your programming, man -- make you independent!
KRYTEN: Well, I'm truly grateful, sir. Don't you think I'd love to be
deceitful, unpleasant, and offensive? Those are the human qualities I
admire the most! But I just can't do it.
LISTER: You CAN!
KRYTEN: I CAN'T!
LISTER: (Picks up the banana again.) Look! What's this?!
KRYTEN: No!
LISTER: What is it?
KRYTEN: Please!
LISTER: Come on, what is it?
KRYTEN: It's a b... It's a b... It's a small, off-duty Czechoslovakian
traffic warden! (He looks stunned.)
LISTER: Yes, you did it, you did it! (Holding up the orange) What's
this?
KRYTEN: It's a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella!
LISTER: Kryten! Yes! (Holding up the apple) What's this?
KRYTEN: It's an apple.
LISTER: No! What is it?
KRYTEN: It's a -- it's a -- it's, it's, it's the Bolivian Navy on
manoeuvres in the South Pacific!
LISTER: Well, Kryten, man -- you can do it!
KRYTEN: (Proud of himself) No, I can't.
LISTER: Yes, you -- whoa, whoa, nice one!
KRYTEN: Well, I can't hang around here; I better go away and take the
penguin for a walk. I can do it! I did it again, I can lie!
LISTER: Cat, Cat! C'mere, c'mere -- check this, check this, check this!
CAT enters.
CAT: Check what?
LISTER: Concentrate, Kryten. What's this? (He holds up the banana.)
KRYTEN: It's a banana.
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